Some People...

I really think that some people need to worry about their own house and stay out of other people's. This came across my facebook news feed today and really hacked me off. First off, this is NOT in Nashville it is in Seymour, Indiana.

Pornography is NOT illegal. Is it immoral? That's for each individual person to decide. I say this because I went to the website for the organization that is doing the protesting and in their own words they say, "Lion's Den customers daily bring the actual proof of the obvious danger sex businesses bring to residential neighborhood, by their lewd, illegal and often dangerous behavior. We post it for the world to see."

So I went to their "gothca" page to see these lewd, illegal and dangerous acts. All I see is a bunch of idiots mugging for the camera and none of it is illegal (except for the whole bag thing but she could have easily taken the items out of the bag herself). The people behind this website like to generalize that all porn consumers act this way. Again, with no proof.

It seems that the whole argument against Lion's Den is that it is in a residential area. Maybe it is. I personally don't think there should be a porn shop on every corner but as long as it is operating inside the law I don't care. There have been arguments both  for and against the porn issue. Ultimately it comes down to no one knows!

Here in Nashville we have a Hustler Hollywood store that regularly has protesters outside the store. Although this store is in an urban non-residential area they still draw protesters. I think it's time that the rest of us who are not insane should start protesting the protesters. All these people are doing is impeding the business practices of law abiding establishments and strong arming patrons into not shopping at these places with veiled threats and "shaming." I think it's time we ask ourselves, "What would Larry Flint do?" I'm a huge proponent of the First Amendment and freedom of speech and freedom of religion should both be preserved at all costs. But just because you have the freedom of both these things does not give you the right to force yours on everyone else.